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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 8, 1879.
AlphoiMr aiul Seraplilne.—A Matrimonial
Card and What Came of it.-A romantic story
comes from England. That fast journal the l’aris
Fi'/aro, makes matrimonial advertisements a feat
ure, and two years ago, there appeared in its col
umns the card of a widow of twenty-eight, “hand
some, accomplished and belonging toa rich,power
ful and noble family, but one now reduced by ad
verse circumstances to a bare competence.” The
young widow desired an alliance with “a young man
of noble, frank, original nature” and giving her
name as Seraphine asked to be addressed by the ap
plicant for the position at a postal station in Lon-
A romantic French youth of sixteen, named Al
phonse Delente, read the advertisement, recognized
in himself the "noble and original nature” that
was appealed to through the columns of the Figaro-
and at once responded. A correspondence ensued
which ended In Alphonse setting out for London,
leaving his parents in the dark as to his move
ments. Arrived at the address given, he found that
contrary to the usual fashion of matrimonial ad
vertisers, Seraphine's card had been strictly true-
The young widow was really handsome and really
titled, being the Countess Serupliine Mozoniska—
the child-wife of a Russian nobleman whom polit
ical offenses had sent into exile and poverty. He
had died broken-hearted, and the young widow,
left with three small children, a stranger in a stran
ger land, felt like an unfledged bird tumbled out of
its nest. Having no one she could consult, she con
ceived the plan of alvertislng for a protector who
should shield her and her babes in the cold world
in which they found themselves. The young man’s
responses suited her. They were romantic and no
ble in sentiment, and so it was decided he should
come to London and behold his fair correspondent
face to face. He came, they were mutually pleast d
with each other and the marriage took place. The
young bridegroom had not a sou in his pocket, so
the bride paid the marriage fee and took him to her
own little home, where for two years they lived in
ideal felicity—a couple of overgrown children—un
til the lady’s little fortune gave out and it was
found necessary to appeal to the mere Delente, for
some little advance upon Alphonse’s portion of the
estate, which he could not come into possession of
until he was of age. His father had not troubled
his brain about his son’s absence or his mad mar
riage, nor did the mother do so after the death of
the paternal Delente. But no sooner was there a
question of money, than she waxed virtuously in
dignant and rushed into court with the matter, al
leging that her son had. while five years under age,
been entrapped into a marriage with an intriguing
adventuress. Poor Alphonse gathered together
what money he could and fought his mother’s case
very strenuously in court, but there is a strong
probability that justice will hover over the stand
ard that carries the longest purse and that the po
etic countess will be declared husbandless again,
unless Alphonse re-marries her when he becomes
of age. *
Why do yon Forget T—People are apt to say
“I forgot it,” or “it escaped my memory,” and they
seem to suppose when they have said this that they
have offered a a sufficient excuse for any short-com
ing, not seeming to realize that they are to blame
r - - Is snmp rtiffsrpnnfi in th.>
which many persons do not practically admit that
this faculty may be improved by study or impaired
by neglect. An unusually good memory will inva
riably be found to be the result of close attention
and study. One could hardly be expected to recol
lect things which they have but slightingly ob
served. It is, however, the opinion of mental phi
losophers that we do not entirely forget—that the
things which seem to pass from our minds do not
really do so, but are only obscured by succeeding
scenes or events. Cases now and then occur which
seem to confirm this view. Persons have been
known in many instances to recall as an effect of
sickness or of some sudden shock, long trains of rec.
ollections w T hich had before seemed wholly to have
passed from them. If this idea be true, it would
impress upon us still mo-e strongly the possibility
and the duty of improving the memory. When we
find a difficulty of retaining a knowledge of any par
ticular kind, special efforts should be made to im
prove our power in that direction. Forgetfulness
may seem to palliate our short-comings in the esti
mation of men, but God will hold us responsible for
our memories as well as for our other faculties.
W’ill Science Make Wars to Cense t—Phi.
losophy and religion, separately and combined, have
done little towards making wars less frequent or
less destructive. Nor can it be claimed that these
have not had ample time to work. From the earl
iest ages have their apostles done what they might
to curb the evil passions of men and make them less
disposed to harm each other. Still are the mass o f
men stirred by the sound of the drum and more ea
ger for military glory than for fame of any other
kincl. The honors conferred upon the greatest ben
efactors are slight compared with those bestowed
upon the hero who comes ensanguined from the
field of slaughter. We need not hope that the pre
cepts of the highest philosopher, nor yet the more
exacting mandates of the gospel will ever overcome
man's passion for power and conquest. But may it
not be like some of those diseases, which, resisting
all preventive and unyielding to the best cures, are
conquered by poisons like themselves. In other
worlds, may it not be that while men will not
cease to war because it is condemned by their rea
son and their reli ion, will nevertheless abandon it
because science, whose aid they have called in to
render it effective, has rendered it so immensely de
structive. The science of oflensive warfare has far
outstripped the defensive. In the collisions of hos
tile armies the proportion of killed is tar greater
than it was even a score of years ago. If improve
ments in offensive weapons continue at the same
rate, it will be the case in a few years that no battle
can ensue without a total annihilation of the
armies. This consideration may induce rulers to
exhaust every resource of diplomacy rather than ap*
peal to arms, and science, who lias loilft helped man
in his .deeds of ferocious malice, may become the
mother of peace. * *
A Question tliat cannot be Answered.—
Have all the men achieved greatness who were ca
pable of doing so? An affirmative reply to this
query would seem to absolve all men from the
charge of burying talents or neglecting opportuni
ties; for if all have achieved success who could have
done so, then those who have not are assuredly not
to be blamed lor not attemping what they could
not have accomplished. According to this theory,
all failures are such of necessity, anil were the re
sult-the inevitable result of persons attempting
that for which they had no fitness. Such a doctrine
is not without its consolation. Almost the direct
opposite of this is tlie idea advanced by men whose
names carry a great weight of authority, that certain
deeds had to be performed, certain thoughts had to
be uttered, and that had they not been performed
or uttered by one, they would have been performed
and uttered by another. This creed would render
man worthy neither of praise nor of condemnation;
for it makes him the creature of necessity. When
Cromwell rejoices over the crowning mercy that
helped him to a throne and Charles Stewart to the
block, he did only what some one had to do, The
great songs ol Troy and of man's first disobedience
and fall must have been sung had Homer and Mil-
ton never have lived. The principles of the trian
gle would have been demonstrated, the laws of in
ductive reasoning set forth, the planets weighed
and the circulation of the blood discovered had
Pythagorus, Bacon, La Place and Hervey never
have been known. Other hands would have been
inspired to draw forth these treasures from the
ocean of truth. Perhaps this may be so. We can
not say. Thousands may have died with great
truths struggling in their hearts for utterance and
forever lepressed; or may be that something which
has been long seeking an outlet, at length forces it
self from the lips of an unwilling prophet. * *
Rimy Bodies in K'ountry Neighborhoods
and Villages.—Of course we shuddered, as any tol
erably cle n-minded individual was bound to do, at
Mr. Talmage's revelations of the wickedness of citie s
in that series of highly colored lectures in his New
York Tabernacle, to which people from far aud wide
floeked as to a show, aud in the midst of which vou
could hear the scratching of pencils upon dozens of
note books as the different reporters for the papers
took down the rapid words of the speaker with in
terpolated descriptions of his eccentric gestures.
Yes, he unmasked the cities and showed them to be
Infernos under a gilded veil, but the country and
the village—we congratulated ourself that he had
spared them and repeated complacently the thread
bare saying that “God made the country and man
the town.” But Mr. Talmage has broken in upon
our felicitations by his lastSunday’s sermon, which
he opened by asserting that the country was every
whit as bad as the city and that the village was even
worse. “The village and the neighborhood,” says
Mr. Talmage, “copy the vices of the city on a small
er and meaner scale. And as for gossip, (and here,
he rose tiptoe and drew in his breath by way of pro
digious emphasis) the heaven of gossip and scandal
is the village and the country neighborhood. The
grocery and the blacksmith's shop are the grand de
pot of the masculine gossips, and there are always a
half dozen women, who keep their sun-bonnets so
handy tliatat the very first touch of news derogatory
to anybody, they can rush off and tattle it abroad.”
A Poem to Order.—Mr. Thingum Bob, whose
literary productions made up in brilliance what
they lacked In length,assures us that he found it ‘all
sorts of a job to write an ode upon the Oil of Bob’
Not less of a job it must be we opine to write an ode
upon any theme. The muse can sing well only
v hen she sings spontaneouly. There is upon rec
ord no instance in which a poet has achieved emi
nent success when his subject was prescribed. Dry-
den wrote his Hind and Panther to gratify the Court
of James the Second and to prove .his devotion
to his newly professed faith. But whlla
this was unquestionably the best production in
verse which appeared during that short and inglo
rious reign, it does not deserve a place in the first
class of literature. In not even so high a rank as
this would we place the £ a ?? p „ ig "vthim^taeever
approaches poetry nearer than anything he ever
wrote. But though his principles were ^n perfect
accord with the task that he was caflea on to per
form, the work evinces clearly that ^ was a task
Prize poems are very apt to be bad they are certain
to be so if the poet be dictated to »“ “’ 8 ". b d
t ra n s mu tepoet ry fromabife of free and airy wing
in a tS a™U?n P »r r fowl the change may fee use
ful out it is assuredly not brilliant.
Chamber Inin on llie Southern Negro.—The
article of Mr. James Parton in the North American
Review on‘Antipathy to th|e Negro’ has been fol-
ir>wo.i nn hv n tinner in th'i same Review on the
Chamberlain, late Carpet bag governor of South
Carolina. As might be expected, his views on a
very grave subject are much colored by partisan
ship. He throws on the Southern whites all the
horrors of reconstruction, while of the blacks he
predicates suen an amount of honesty, loyalty and
patriotism as prove him possessed of a vivid imag
ination. In fact, nothing in the writings ofNortli-
ern politicians sounds so intensely hypocritical as
their talk about the negro’s ‘loyalty to the Uniont
when in truth the average Negro cares not a fig for
the Union, but rejoices only that he cannot be made
to work. But Gov. Chamberlain paints him as en
tirely honest in his political convictions and quite
earnest in his wish for honest officers, and thor
oughly opposed to those who show themselves dis
honest. Had this latter proposition been true, Mr.
C. would have been writing articles for the North
American some years ago instead of playing at be
ing governor of South Carolina. Mr. Parton says
that the induction of the negro into politics has
been a misfortune to him, and hints that it has been
so to the country.
Mr. Chamberlain, on the contrary, argues, or at
leastasserts, that he played his part well in the days
of reconstruction, and we would infer that his sum
ming up would be that the negro is more fit to gov
ern the country by his vote than the white man.
We suspect that the South while under the control
of negroes who kept New England carpet-baggers
in office upon fat salaries with plenty of good steal
ing, presented Mr. Chamberlain's conception of
Utopia. As a party document, we presume this pa
per will not be without weight; but it is wholly un
reliable as a history of the past taken by colored
men in the work of reconstruction. * *,
We often have occasion to censure American la
dies for their dispisition to follow blindly the fash,
ions and habits of European society. But the First
Lady of America, the young daughter ol Victoria,
who has come over to play the Vice-Queen in her
mother's dominion of Canada, sets our ladicsan ex
ample which we would gladly see largely followed.
It is said that Her Highness may be seen every day
when the weather is not too severe, walking about
with firm and rapid step wheresoever her will may
lead. It has long been known that Queen Victoria
has never made herself the slave ol etiquette, and
her daughter shows that she has independence
enough to do what may be necessary for her bodily
health despite what people may think or say of
her. It is a good example and being set by one so
high in station, will not be without influence.
American women, and more particularly Southern
women do not walk enough. There is nothing like
a good long tramp in the open air to set the blood
in motion aud free the mind from unpleasant
thoughts. **
Having; Two Businesses.---It is a very c im
mon thing in this country to find men, who, to us
a familiar expression, have several irons in the fire
Often we find a professional man who is also a mer
chant aud farmer. Common as this practice is, it
is not one approved by sound sense. Most intel
lects are too limited in their capacities to give the
requisite attention to a diversity of interests. Some
are apt to suffer; usually all do when the preacher
has to divide his time between the pulpit and the
field, his flock will not be so well watched over nor
his crops so well as if he were devoted
wholly to one. When the lawyer varies his study
ofBlackstoue by looking after the culture of fruit,
the probabilities are that eitheir his clients will
complain of neglected cases, or blights will render
his orchards unprofitable.
It is not at all surprising that they who engage in
farming as aside business while their chief atten
tion is directed to some other* pursuit incur losses
which render them embarrassed despite enormous
profits arising from their main vocation. Any bus
iness that is worth following at all is worth follow
ing exclusively, and it is not often that one is prof
itable that it is not followed exclusively.
The least remunerative occupation if pursued with
patient diligence will in the end prove more lucra
tive than the best paying business if it shares the
attention with two or three others. It may be re
garded as a misfortune to any individual to possess
or fancy he possesses an aptitude for a number of
things. He will be likely to change from one to an
other, without giving to either that diligent appli
cation which is essential to success. It is quite
probable that the son of Jacob with regard to whom
he made the prediction ‘unstableas water thou shalt
not excel’ possessed this capacity for doiug many
things, and the consequent indisposition to stick to
none of them. * *
SPECIAL J8ENTI0N.
Who is to Blame?—As we opened one of our
exchanges the other day, the first words that ar
rested our attention was the following sentence:
“We think the assertion susceptible of proof that a
large proportion of business failures arehrough t
about by the extravagant habits of the wives and
daughters of business men.”
Now admitting that the assertion is susceptible
of proof who is the more to blame in this matter
Some will say, “Why, the women, of course.” It is
true that women love to dress and not many have
the moral courage to be out of the fashion. But
there are not many women who are so recklessly
fond of display as to be willing for its sake to ruin
their husbands’ business prospects. When wives
and daughters dress extravagantly it is very apt to
be the men’s fault. They do not tell their “woman
kind” plainly that economy is a necessity and that
their success in business depends on living plainly
Would they do this, that self-sacrificing spirit
which is so prominent a feature of woman’s charac
ter would impel her to forego all vanities for tha
sakes of those they love. We have seen women re
tire from society almost entirely and seclude them
selves in the privacy of home because their hus
bands’ means did not authorize their dressing as
did the ladies of their circle. Of course we wish wo
men would dress more plainly, so that the worthy
wives of men of moderate incomes would not be
foiced thus to seclude themselves. In bringing
this about, however, men have much m^re to do
than is generally admitted. • •
The International Review for January comes to us
with the announcement that henceforth it will be
Issued monthly; that each monthly number will
contain nearly as many pages as the bi-monthly
numbers contained; that the annual subscription
will remain at 85.00, and the price for single num
bers will be reduced to 50 cents.
The January number is fully abreast of the great
subjects that at present command the public atten
tion. The poem, with which the number opens,
Frustration, by Mr. Edgar Fawcett, justly placed
among his best things, is in every way worthy of
the place of honor. In the article on “Suffrage, a
Birthright” which follows, Mr. Julian of Indiana,
continues the subject upon which he has been re
cently writing in the Reviews, and here more es
pecially replies to Mr. I'arkman’s postulate, “Uni
versal Suffrage is a failure.” F. H. Morse, formerly
il. S. Consul-Gen^raV presents-an im
how to preserve and iu'jjtease the present gratifying
growth of our “Export Vrade.” Karl Blind the cel
ebrated German Anti-Russian agitator, now resid
ing in England, contributes the first of a series of
papers on his “Recollections” of the views of the
great Italian leader Mazzini on the Eastern ques
tion and the relations of Russia to other European
States. Dr. Edmond de Pressense, the famous Prot
estant preacher of France, contributes to this num
ber a chronicle of some of the recent important
French publications, revealing the present moral
and literary condition of France. Mr. Barnett
Smith describes the literary movement as indicat
ed by recent books published in England, and a
competent hand is seen in the very full aud inter
esting paper on the literary movement in America.
The article, “In Conflict with Science,” is a rap up
on Mr. Tyndall’s knuckles, by a mechanic, who dis
plays rare analytic powers, and evidently compre
hends Mr. Tyndall's inconsistencies aud contradic
tions better than any purely theological critic has
done.
Finally the number contains an article which de
serves more than passing notice, as it reveals mo t
forcibly and clearly the present and future political
situation in the young giant—the Republic of
France, from the point of view of “The Left.” The
paper is from the pen of Mr. Alfred Talandier, Dep-
utie de 11 Seine, of whom his friend and colleague,
Louis Blanc writes: “No one is better able to write
with power and exactness the state of things in our
country than Mr. A. Talandier.”
Thus this initial number of the new volume is
filled with interesting matter of lasting value—lit
erary, theological, social, political and historical.
The number may be obtained of newsdealers and
booksellers everywhere or will be sent, postpaid, by
the Publishers, A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, on
receipt of oO cents. Let all who read this subscribe
for this Review, which promises great things lor
1S79.
The Dramn.-51 oiljesUn and Printer's Ink.
—We are really much relieved as we have actually
seen aud heard this living wonder (so called) who
travels in a private palace-car and wears thousand
dollar dresses. But we are not satisfied somehow.
We failed to see the miracles and yet we watched
most attentively. Nor did we hear the accents of
any marvellous voice, and yet we listened earnest
ly. Surely there was some mistake thought a very
large and elegant house of eager and waiting hear
ers. The first act passes, then the second and the
third and yet we have seen nothing unusual. We
have seen audiences much more deeply moved by
the same three scenes. But by tli" time the fourth
scene is reached any audience will be interested in
the play itself even when acted by novices. It is
simply an overdrawn love affair which never oc
curs even in amorous French life. But it is the
‘old, old story’ and never fails to interest both sexes
The ‘Countess,’ however, exhibits entirely too
much of the d.vine passion after she consents ‘to be
loved.’ All her diguity, self possession and personal
identity are completely obliterated and no lover,
hewever ardent his passion could enduresuch over
whelming demonstrations on the part of a woman.
Instead of that delicate subtlety of art which the
partial newspaper critics pretend to discover in the
acting of the Countess it is difficult to discover any
art at all. It is simply the oulgusliings of a love
sick woman all the way through. In throwingaside
all the dignity'of a woman with so much experi-
rietice as Camille had we think she makes a fatal
mistake in her conception and representation of fe
male character. Even in the interview with Du
val's father she p ay's the child instead of the wo
man. And when iu her changed and faded condi
tion from the ravages of consumption, she loons at
herself iu the glass how much more impressive
might she have been had she spoken of it to her
self with dignity and trickling tears, than with a
loud shriek. She certainly makes a mistake and
her acting falls far short of the measure of public
expectation. She has a face rather pretty, hut slen
der form and irulisstinct falsetto voice, and we are
forced to the conclusion that her reputation is the
result of sharp and judicious advertising, and not
of superior acting. People will run after bit/.shows,
whether humbugs or not and shout great is Diana.
Her support is very inferior. In otu-or two scenes
Mr. Frank Clements as Armand Duval, rises to the
diguity of a clever actor. We have not intended
these remarks for severity at ail, but what we con
ceive to be just criticism From the noise over the
Countess Modjeska we expected something bet
than ordinary.
Miss Genevieve lingers.—We are delighted at,
the coming of this pretty and sweet little actress
who melted us all into tears on her first visit. As
Maud Muller, she wins all hearts and has made a
wide and well merited reputation in this character.
We give a very correct portrait of her on the oppo
site page which shows her youth and beauty. She
is a Kentuckian, not quite out of her teens, and the
highest praise of her interpretation of the character
of Maud Muller is found in the enthusiasm which
it created among the fastidious Bostonians- The
cast by which she is supported is said to be unusual
ly good, Mr. Aiken, the leading man, being an ac
tor of high reputation.
Her advance agent, Mr. David W. Van Deren, is a
polished aud agreeable gentlemau.
Tlie Gorgin Railroad.—This popular old line
which was so long under the excellent manage
ment of that great and good man, Jno. P. King, is
continuing to flourish under the new administra
tion. Gen. Alexander makes a most admirable
and popular President and Col. E. R. Dorsey, the
general passenger agent. Is filling the bill to the en
tire satisfaction of all concerned and the traveling
public generally.
Too Many Books.—There is a great complaint of
the dearth of originality. Fresh books are plenti
ful but fresh thoughts are few. Imagination jogs
along in well worn tracks. Novels are novels in
name only, not in plot or method.-^People talk
platitudes and each man’s ideas bear a strong fami
ly likeness to his neighbor’s. Is it not because we
read too much and think too little, observe too lit
tle, feed our imaginations from printed pages in
stead offrom the broad page of nature and of hu
man life? Reading is to the mind as artificial
heat and light is to the plant. It does not give
such strength of fibre such breadth and richness
pfertabMV tWoilf.Stuns tine of observation and in. Je-
which has drawn its chief element froni books "'Its
conceptions are pale and lacking in vitality and
clearness of outline. The thoughts that take hold
ol people’s minds and hearts with strong, nervous
grasp are not inspired by books, do not smell of the
close studios and the midnignt oil, but are evolved
through the magnetism of human contact and sym
pathy, orare born of the individual brain in stron-,
solitary throes, creatians, athrob with life and not
pale photographs of other’s thoughts. *
The Publishers of the North American Review an
nounce that they will hereafter issue that Journal
monthly. Its contents, while usually of a political
bearing are of a high order of literary merit. The
January number contains a very able paper from
Judge Hoar on the order of business in Congress,
and one from D. H^Chamberlain on the Negro and
Reconstruction, and a number of others, all on sub
jects of interes:. No periodical in our country can
boast of so distinguished a listef contributors as the
North American Review.
An Explanatinn.Three short pieces of ours,‘Horse
Phrenology,-’ “A Rabbit Cat” and “Christmas in a
Deaf aud Dumb Asylum,” were copied into last
week’s Sunuy South from the young folks’ paper—
“The Boys and Girl* of the South,” published last
w ek. The pieces were merely bits of gossip for the
children and not meant to be served up to the ma
ture and dignified readers of the Sunny South. But
if copied, there should have been an intimation that
they were written for and takeu from the children’s
paper. •
A large and fashionable assemblage of both
latte’ites and Christians met at Raine’s
Balt, to witness the interesting spectacle of a
double wedding. The contracting parties were
Mr. Etnmannel Berliner, cf Lynchburg, Va., and
Miss Mary Hermann, daughter of the late Sam’l
Hermann; and Mr. Julius Frank, of Lynchburg,
Va, and Miss Gertrnde Hermann of Baltimore,
the brides are first cousins, and the bridegrooms
are intimate friends. The ceremony of marry
ing the first couple was performed by the Rav.
Dr. Schneoberger, of the Loyd street synagogue.
The uniting of the second couple was perform
ed by the Rev, Dr. Szold, of the Hanover Street
Synagogue. The ceremonies took place in the
large had of the building, and were witnessed
by over two hundred guests. After the wedding
a sumptuous banquet was served, and at night
the floor was cleared, and dancing enhanced the
pleasure of the festivities. The newly married
couples left on the early evening train for
Lynchburg, their future home.
What do our Children Bead ?
The reading, which, unknown to parents,
finds its way into the hands of their children’
is often of the very worst kind. It is stated that
there are twenty-five pernicious story-papers
for boys and girls published in New-York City,
alone, and their popularity is shown by the
fact that these vicious sheets have a circulation
of over 375,000. They are printed on cheap,
poor paper, are widely advertised, and are
offered for sale at prices which enable even the
poorest children to obtain them.
As to the ‘dime novel’ code, Prof. W. G. Sum
ner, of Yale College, speaking of the effect of
dime novels upon the young, says: ‘We may
generalize the following, in regard to the views
of life which these stories inculcate, and the
code of morals and manners which they teach;
The first thing which a boy ought to acquire,
is physical strength for fighting purposes. The
supposed code of English brutality prevails,
but it is always mixed with the code of the re
volver, and in many of the stories, the latter is
taught in its fullness. These youngsters gen
erally carry revolvers and use them at their
good discretion*
‘A boy ought to cheat the penurious father
who does not give him as much money as he
finds necessary, and ought to compel him to
pay. A good way to force him to pay liberally,
and, at the same time, stop criticising his son’s
habits, is to find out his own vices (he always
has some), and then to levy blackmail on him.
‘Quiet home life is stupid and unmanly.
Boys brought up in it have to work hard and to
bow down to false doctrines which parsons and
teachers, in league with parents, have invented
against boys. To become a true man, a boy
must break with respectability and join the vag
abonds and the swell mob. " ' °
‘No fine young fellow, who knows life, need
mind the law, still less the police. If a father
is rich, the son can easily find smart lawyers
who can get him out of prison, and will dine
with him at Delmonico’s afterward.’
The richest man now in New York is Wm. H.
Vanderbilt. A. T. Stewart's fortune was $80,-
000, 000, and the Astor estate in 1873 was esti
mated at $90,000,000. Mackey, the bonanza
king, is said to be worth $130,000,000.
‘Reverence is not ‘Young America’s’ strong
poiat. Your average boy or girl of ‘the period,’ is
quite superior to most of the traditional forms and,
we regret to add, traditional civilities of the past!
Perhaps the stately of a half century since, were a
little more stiff and mechanical than this active
matter-of fact age demands. Still the tendency
now is all in the opposite direction. Forms are
the decorous garb in which feeling clothes itself.
They have their place. They cafanot with safety
be altogether laid aside. It is no sign of genius or
independence in young or old to bid defiance to
the recognized proprieties or even minor civilities
of social life.’
The Jewish Record innocently inquires why
the Jewish Messenger does not join it against
the Jewish South s efforts to defeat the pav-
meut of the statue ? We will enlighten the em
inent editor and member of the Statue Commit
tee. The managing editor of the Messenner
having lately been successful in procuring the
honorary title of Ph. D. he looks upon public
questions with a philosophic eye, henoe he is not
inclined to run his head against stubborn facts
and irrefutable arguments. Besides has not the
Record stopped talking against the Jewish South
after our second leader "l—Jewish South.
‘Forty Years Ago.
Drifting Sands from the Moun
tains and Foot .Hills ot
Georgia.
This is the title of a grand Mss. now
in hand and soon to begin in the Sunny
South. It will be read all over the
South with great interst.
The Arkansas and
Red River Regions.
SCENES AND INCIDENTS FORT!
YEARS AGO.
Thrilling Adventures of a Young
Georgian.
BY COL. WM. H. SPARKS, AUTHOR OF
‘THE MEMORIES OF FIFTY years/
We shall begin the publication of a
thrilling narrative by this distinguishid
Georgian, but now of Lousiana, giving
his personal experiences when a boy in
tlie early history of the Arkansas and
Red River Regions.
The Boys and Girls
of the South.
This bright little paper is now issued
on the 1st. and loth, of each month for
only one dollar a year and contains 32
columns of reading matter with hand
some illustrations. Every parent should
take it for his children as it is intended
to improve their minds hnd elevate their
thoughts.
Clubbing With Other Papers.
Tlie Sunny South and any other
Paper or Uaxa/inc for about
tlie Price of One.
Let every one avail himself of the
following remarkable propositions and
secure his reading matter for the next
twelve months. Such inducements have
never before been offered to the public.
Any paper or magazine may be seenred
-w'—iiotirai with flipSuvNY South jt.
very nearly the price of one, and spe
cial attention is invited to the unparal
leled offer. Other publications will be
added to this list. The amounts oppo-
posite the papers mentioned will secure
both for one year, postage prepaid.
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